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Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
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| It's alive! Mozilla has released the first alpha version of its upcoming
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[News] First Alpha of Thunderbird 3 is Released

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Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1

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| It's alive! Mozilla has released the first alpha version of its upcoming
| Thunderbird 3.0, the company's next-generation e-mail application. We don't
| suggest you rush out and download it unless you're a true early adopter; this
| release isn't stable and lacks many of the features planned for Thunderbird
| 3's final release.
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*Extensions* make it one of the most powerful E-mail/messaging/news program out
there. Even the inventor of E-mail uses Thunderbird.

Last week:

Has Thunderbird Finally Taken Off?

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| That seems not to be the case if these figures are at all representative of
| the wider world. And even if they're not, it suggests early adopters are,
| well, adopting Thunderbird in significant numbers.
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| The Thunderbird development community aims to release the first alpha of
| Thunderbird 3 next month. Plans began to take shape yesterday during the very
| first Thunderbird weekly status call meeting, at which developers discussed
| potential features and other issues of relevance. Â*
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| Thunderbird 3.0 is due to ship by the end of the year with a more
| comprehensive search feature and official integration of the Lightning
| calendar add-on, said David Ascher, chief executive of the newly named
| Mozilla Messaging subsidiary. The first alpha release will come sooner,
| though, for those who want to test the software. Â* Â*
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| David Ascher, head of the now independent spinoff of Mozilla provisionally
| called MailCo, has presented a rough road map for the development of the
| third version of the Thunderbird open source e-mail client. In the current
| quarter, an alpha version is scheduled to be released followed by a beta
| version in the second quarter, Ascher writes in a newsgroup entry. Â* Â*
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| "I believe that it's really worthwhile to get a release underway. Testers
| have only had nightlies for quite a while now, and the trunk is already
| notably better than [Thunderbird 2.0] in a number of ways," Mosedale
| continued. "Getting something that we're willing to recommend to a wider
| group of people is a great way to demonstrate real progress." Â* Â*
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| He uses Thunderbird, an e-mail application developed by Mozilla, the company
| which distributes the Firefox web browser, but he also has a Gmail account.
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| He said he once had to use Outlook â€“ â€śI didnâ€™t find it particularly
| attractiveâ€ť, and that for a time he blocked all incoming messages from
| Hotmail, â€śbecause they used to carry a lot of viruses â€“ though theyâ€™ve
| clamped down on that.â€ť
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